Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-02-11
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BISMARCK, OAK, Feb. q. 1897 i.
The dogs of war will be turned loose
again in few days. A large lobby is here
from Mitchell to resuscitate the court
removal bill, which passed the house, but
is now slumbering in the hands of coun-
Gil committee. Among the Mitchellites
on the ground is ex-Chief Justice Edger.
ton, who says he has come on business
before the supreme court, but who acts
for all the world like man who wants
to see the court removed from Yankton
to Mitchell. The bill will be called up in
few days.
Another measure which will excite
much discussion, and which will revive
an aggravating question, is that intro.
duced in the house yesterday providing
for the disbandment of the capital COM
mission and the acceptance of the capitol
building by the territory. The bill makes
the governor, secretary and auditor of the
territory commission to take charge of
the building and disbulse the money
necessary for its maintenance 1t also
provides for reappraisement of the 800
acres OF land given with the building by
the citizens of Bismarck. 1t is expected
that the capital-rsmoval faction will op.
pose this measure, which,, if defeated,
will leave the old capital commission en-
powered to contract debts and expend
money for the buildings care and I'M
provement.
The house was rsgalcd yesterday with
lecture by Mrs. Packard, the lady who
was placed in an insane asylum in Illinois
because of religious liberality. She ad-
vocated the passage of bill giving to
each inmate of an asylum the right to
choose one correspondent with whom he
may communicate without having letters
intercepted. I think this bill will pass.
Much discussion was 1ndulged in upon
the bill defining the crime OF rape and
fixing the age of consent. The bill as
passed provides that the consent of girl
under IA years of age shall not be accent
ed as defense.
"a bill is now before the council provid-
ing that married women shall have all the
legal rights of single women, and shall
be entitled to appear in court in their own
names in all actions affecting their rights
Iln fact, the legislature has taken a
shift toward the women of late, and mem.
bers are vieing with each other for popu-
larity among the calico. "A woman
suffrage bill will be introduced this week,
and will be championed IN the house by
Col. Moore. of Sully county, the frisky
old iron-gray colt of that body, and in
the council by Mr.. Smith, of Yankton,
1t will come very near passing, and may
become law.
1.-The local-option temperance bill has
been favorably reported. and, with sew
eral enthusiastic champions in the house,
will pass that body. 1t provides that,
whenever 200 voters of county petition
for special election upon the question n
OF the sale of liquors. the commissioners
shall call an election, and majority vote
shall decide.
|The bill placed before the house yester-
day appropriating $3.50, 900 for the pur-
chase of seed wheat for farmers whose
crops were destroyed by drought or
storms last year is looked upon with fa-
vor, and should pass. If there is any
matter in which the legislature should be
generous it is that of assisting the farm
ers OF the territory who have been con-
tending with intriguing corporations,
scheming usurers and the designing ele-
ments generally during the past two
years.
An effort will be made to pass the bill
enabling person whose relative or friend
has been lost in a railroad accident to
sue for punitive damages in the sum Of
$4,000.
| Acting Governor Mccormack has
brought down upon his head the wrath
of the people of Sioux Falls by vetoing
the bill legalizing the election at which
they voted 100000 bonus to the Burling-
ton s. Northern railroad. There are nu-
merous conflicting opinions as to the pro-
priety or legal soundness Of the veto, and
1t is not certain that tho house will emu
late the example of tho council in passing
the bill over the veto. If it does not
then the citizens of Sioux Falls who
guaranteed the bonds must shoulder the
burden.
The bill for the removal of the United
States court from Deadwood to Sioux
Falls is now before the council, and may
pass. Odds are against its passage, how.
ever, as the judges of the supreme court
now in the city have stated to members
that they are not desirous of removal.
The bill for the location of the soldiers
home at Hot Springs will be taken up
Tuesday, and although it may pass the
house, under the urgent demands of the
Black Hills members, fear it will never
| become law.
The interest now centers in the ques-
ton of appointments. Governor Church
has been confirmed. He will return from
Huron tomorrow, and will take the oath
of Office Tuesday. On to.day's train
came horde of pap-hunters, and the
number now in the city grasping for
place exceeds that Of any previous ses-
sion in the history of the territory.
Among those now on tho ground are Abe
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